Elsa’s Ethiopian Restaurant offers exotic fare at fair prices

Small, family-owned eatery brings tasty platters to downtown Overland Park diners.

By JILL WENDHOLT SILVA
The Kansas City Star

Fingernails lacquered in a shade of bright coral flash in my peripheral visionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif. Across the room, a female diner tears off a swath of injera and uses it to scoop up a mouthful of beef tibs and spicy stewed lentils.

Injera is the base of Ethiopian cuisine and serves not only as sustenance but also as plate and utensil. The pancakelike bread is made from teff, a cereal grain that grows best at high altitude. It is cooked in a hot pan that causes the side in contact with heat to form spongy dimples. Those dimples help soak up savory sauces.

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The New York Times: Global Flavors Bring a New Zing to the Table

Eleni's Kitchen Red Pepper Sauce was featured on The New York Times Dinning & Wine section on March 3rd, 2009. Here's an excerpt:

Global Flavors Bring a New Zing to the Table

Make room on your spice shelf for new contenders from afar.

Kulet, an Ethiopian sauce made with red peppers, is especially good in bean and lentil stews. It can also add a new dimension to pasta sauces and stewed meats.

Eleni Woldeyes, an Ethiopian cook in Hillsboro, Ore., is producing kulet in mild and hot versions. The mild is $4.49 for a 13-ounce jar, the hot is $5.49 for 12.4 ounces from eleniskitchen.com

Online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/dining/04spice.html or on page D3 of the New York edition (print - March 4th, 2009)

Eleni's Kitchen Red Pepper Sauce Now Available at the Tanasbourne Wholefoods Market in Hillsboro, Oregon

It is with great excitement that Eleni's Kitchen, LLC announces to its customers that its product - Eleni's Kitchen Ethiopian Red Pepper Sauce (KULET) - is now available at the Tanasbourne Wholefoods Market in Hillsboro, Oregon. Wholefoods Market is the world's leading natural and organic supermarket and supports local growers and producers.

Eleni's Kitchen, LLC is committed to providing Ethiopian foods made from all natural ingredients. The company's first product, Eleni's Kitchen Ethiopian Red Pepper Sauce (KULET), is prepared from simmered onions, berbere (Ethiopian spiced red chili pepper powder), oil (canola, soybean), garlic, ginger and other spices.

In addition to being available at the Tanasbourne Wholefoods Market in Hillsboro, Oregon, Eleni's Kitchen Red Pepper Sauce is also sold in co-op grocery and local Ethiopian stores in over 10 states in the United States and in Canada. For the full list of stores where you can find the sauce, please visit ElenisKitchen.com.

About Eleni's Kitchen, LLC
It all started with a dream to have simple-to-cook, yet authentically prepared Ethiopian sauce with which one could cook delicious meals at any time. With the knowledge of traditional Ethiopian cooking and with the help of her mother, Eleni Woldeyes, the founder and manager of Eleni's Kitchen, LLC, spent almost two years looking for authentic Ethiopian spices at markets in Oregon. She brought together the best spices that resulted in her company’s first product: Eleni’s Kitchen Red Pepper Sauce (called Kulet in Ethiopia). This sauce is the base used in preparing gourmet stews (beef, lentils, chicken, etc). Made from all natural ingredients, making a stew from Eleni’s Kitchen Red Pepper Sauce is as easy: just add a few cups of water to a pot with a jar of the Red Pepper Sauce and lentils, beef or chicken, and cook for 30 minutes or until the lentils are done or the meat is tender.

In the News:

Eleni's Kitchen Red Pepper Sauce was featured in the "Front Lines," a publication of Food Front, a Coop Grocery Store in Portland, Oregon. Here's the full text of the article.

It all started with a dream to have simple-to-cook, yet authentically prepared Ethiopian sauce with which one could cook delicious meals at any time. With the knowledge of traditional Ethiopian cooking and with the help of her mother, Eleni spent almost two years looking for authentic Ethiopian spices at markets in Oregon. She brought together the best spices that resulted in her company’s first product: Eleni’s Kitchen Kulet-Red Pepper Sauce—sautéed/
simmered sauce (called Kulet in Ethiopia) prepared from onions, berbere (spiced red chili powder), vegetable oil (canola, soybean), garlic, ginger & other spices. This sauce is the base used to prepare gourmet stews (beef, lentils, chicken, etc). Made from all natural ingredients, making a stew from Eleni’s Kitchen Red Pepper Sauce is as easy: just add a few cups of water to a pot with a jar of the Red Pepper Sauce and lentils, beef or chicken, and cook for 30 minutes or until the lentils are done or the meat is tender. Eleni’s Kitchen, LLC is locally operated in Hillsboro. —Gary Koppen, your Grocery Manager

http://www.foodfront.coop/Portals/0/summer_08.pdf

Eleni's Kitchen Kulet - Ethiopian Red Pepper Sauce - Sautéed/Simmered sauce (called Kulet in Ethiopia) prepared from onions, berbere (spiced red chili pepper powder), vegetable oil (canola, soybean), garlic, ginger & other spices. This sauce is the base used to prepare gourmet stews (beef, lentils, chicken, etc). Eleni's Kitchen Kulet (Red Pepper Sauce) is authentically flavored and is made from all natural ingredients. Enjoy the rich exotic aroma and flavors.

Gift Certeficates are also available. Eleni's Kitchen gift certificates are the perfect solution for any special occasion. Whether your loved ones are throwing an Ethiopian-themed dinner party or celebrating any other special occasion, Eleni's Kitchen products are ideal gifts as they come with that exotic touch not found in regular stores.

- For more info: visit ElenisKitchen.com